More EAA

Just another couple of pics to go with Gregg's post below about the EAA museum.......Gregg & his favorite, the Piper Cub and me and my favorite, the Flying Flea.

EAA AirVenture Museum

We just could not pass through Oshkosh, WI without visiting the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) AirVenture Museum and Pioneer Airport at Wittman Field. Oshkosh is home of the worlds largest aviation event, held each year for a week in late July. To give an idea of the scale of this show, it is attended by over 500,000 people and includes some 2,500 aircraft. If all were parked side by side, the flight line would be about 5.2 miles long! About 40,000 campers make the convention grounds their home for the week-long event at Camp Scholler, an integrated 700 acre campground. During the convention, Wittman Field becomes the worlds busiest aiport in terms of takeoffs and landings. Aerial events are scheduled each day at which time the airport is closed to traffic. The museum is open year around and is home to over 250 aircraft and five movie theaters featuring subjects of aviation interest. Pioneer airport which is a part of Wittman Field is a 1930's replica grass airfield and includes over 50 vintage aircraft. EAA members fly homebuilt, classic, antique, warbirds, ultralight, rotorcraft as well as "plain vanilla" conventional aircraft. EAA AirVenture is the place to be to find out what is happening in aviation.

Para-Sailing

Absolutely perfect day for para-sailing, great group of 5 that we went out with, Gregg loved it and Sally is really glad she did it once...

First, our new refrigerator....much better than the red cooler in the bathtub. We are happy campers now.









Next, some wonderful images from Door County, WI. What a place this is. We're finding fun things to do every day:
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Fish Boil - delicious.
He's adding what he calls "a pinch of salt".

Then he adds 2 cups of fuel oil to the fire to create a blaze that makes the fish stew boil over and spill its fat on the ground. The resulting fresh Lake Michigan whitefish is wonderful!
See the boilover here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EHGyzuQZGU

A rule of mine...

Always Stop at

Lemonade Stands!!

Support the entrepreneurial, capitalistic dreams of the young! Notice the Free Ice.

(I found these 2 girls to be an interesting study in opposites - look closely at them...)

Cherry Fest -

Pennies are tossed into the sand for the little ones to find. Nice, nice beaches all around here.

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Today we go para-sailing, add more sitting in our lawn chairs along the harbor, more treasure hunting in the gift shops, maybe kayaking, then back home to the RV to pack up for another move tomorrow. Heading to SW Wisconsin to the Spring Green area to see Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin as well as doing some biking on a state trail.

Door County, Wisconsin

Off to a rocky start in Wisconsin - this ==>>
is our new refrigerator! Ours bit the dust and must be replaced so we are improvising while a new one is shipped to Green Bay for us. So we feel like we are really camping now! The nice RV park people where we are staying this week are keeping all our freezer stuff in their freezer for us.

We had a great day today exploring Door County, the "thumb" of Wisconsin, sticking out into Lake Michigan.



Goats atop the Swiss restaurant in Sister Bay, Door County













View of Nicolet Bay from the 9 mile bike trail through Peninsula State Park

Gregg wanted to ride right into Lake Michigan...

Eagle Harbor in Ephraim, Door County.

The building, a store, was built in 1858. This dock served as the transportation center for this area.

Off to Wisconsin...

Tomorrow morning we'll finally drag ourselves out of Minnesota and head into Wisconsin. We've had a grand time here, wonderful, cool weather, good biking, beautiful lake shores, fun with friends & family.

Today is our 100th day on the road and we haven't even begun to get tired of this. We've traveled only 5,507 miles so the pace is really nice, not too hard on the driver or the navigator. We've found lots of places we've enjoyed settling into for 4-7 days, then get our itch to move on again. Someone today called us "migratory" and I thought that a pretty good name for us. Not quite nomads or gypsies or just wanderers. Migratory...we'll definitely not be in MN this winter!

We keep finding fun things to do. Went on a factory tour at Cirrus today and saw how they build these beautiful little airplanes. Went back to a favorite restaurant - Hell's Kitchen. Climbed a 97 step tower on top of a ridge to look down on the marina where we've been staying on the amazing Lake Superior. This lake contains about 3 quadrillion gallons of water with an average water temperature of 40 degrees, as deep as 1,276 feet, average depth of 489 feet. It's about 1,300 miles to drive around the lake with a surface area of about 31,700 square miles. It is ENORMOUS, the largest freshwater lake in the world, and it freezes in the winter. This just amazes me, that it can freeze. Usually not the entire lake, but it has been recorded twice in written weather history that the entire lake has frozen. Imagine that! 31,700 square miles!

The Hell's Angels are due here in town tomorrow so we will be moving on... Not room enough for all of us migratory people in the same place!

By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, the shining big sea waters...Lake Superior

We are in heaven...Duluth, MN. We're parked in a marina with water and boats on all sides of us. Weather's perfect, biking is great, fabulous restaurants, lots of shops to explore, a live concert right across the bay from us that went on all evening. We're having trouble tearing ourselves away from this place!